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White House Inheritors And Climbers: Presidential Kin, Class, And Performance, 1789–2002, Garrison Nelson
White House Inheritors And Climbers: Presidential Kin, Class, And Performance, 1789–2002, Garrison Nelson
New England Journal of Public Policy
The 2000 presidential election that pitted Republican Texas Governor George W. Bush, the son of a former president against Democratic Vice President Albert Gore, Jr., the son of a former U.S. senator was a dramatic reminder that presidential politics in the United States is not an equal opportunity employer. In this article retrospective assessments of presidential performance are related to social class and kinship connections for the forty-two presidents from George Washington to George W. Bush. Three separate evaluations of presidential performance were used: the 1989 Murray-Blessing Survey; the widely cited 1996 New York Times poll prepared by Arthur M. …